But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spireOpens its eight bells out, skulls' mouths which will not tire...>To tell how there is no music or movement which securesEscape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I was at work that morning. Someone came riding like madOver the bridge and up the road--Farmer Rouf's little lad....Bareback he rode; he had no hat; he hardly stopped to say,"Morgan's men are coming, Frau, they're galloping on this way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So in the b...uffalo times a traveller used to come upon the embers of a hunter's fire on the prairies, after the hunter was up and gone; the coals would be trampled out, but the ground was warm, and the flattened grass where he had slept and where his pony had grazed, told the story. This was the very end of the road-making West; the men who had put plains and mountains under the iron harness were old; some were poor, and even the successful ones were hunting for rest and a brief reprieve from death. It was already gone, that age; nothing could ever bring it back. The taste and smell and song of it, the visions those men had seen in the air and followed,--these he had caught in a kind of afterglow in their own faces,--and this would always be his.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. I...t is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Semin...ole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To motorists bound to or from the Jersey shore, Perth Amboy consists of five traffic lights that sometimes tie up week-end traffic... for miles. While cars creep along or come to a prolonged halt, drivers lean out to discuss with each other this red menace to freedom of the road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »